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An interactive approach to advanced Japanese.
Abstract
In an advanced Japanese class, professors and graduate students traditionally tend to focus on grammar and translation without encouraging student interaction in Japanese. In this paper, I report how I encouraged Japanese-language interaction among students, and recommend that instructors take students' prior-knowledge and creativity into consideration and incorporate classroom activities that require students' active use of the four skills.
Introduction
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